...be of any avail or value. One monitor destroyed now will have greater moral and material effect, I believe, than two sunk at a later stage in our defence. Respectfully, your obedient servant, G. T. Beauregard , Genl. Comdg. This urgent appeal would have met with a ready response from the commander to whom it was made, for he was not only willing but anxious to take an active part in the contest about...